- 1447
Year 1447 was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1447
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March 6 -Pope Nicholas V succeedsPope Eugene IV as the 208thpope .
*December -Vlad II Dracul , ruler ofWallachia , and his eldest sonMircea are assassinated.Vladislav II succeeds him with the assistance ofJohn Hunyadi .
* According to "Ryū"'s own sources,Iizasa Ienao foundsTenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu , the earliest historically verifiable Japanese "koryū"martial art that is still extant today.Births
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December 9 -Chenghua Emperor of China (d.1487 )
*"date unknown"
**Piero Capponi , Italian soldier and statesman (d.1496 )
**Philippe de Commines , Flemish historian (d.1511 )
**Catherine of Genoa , woman mystic (d.1510 )
*"probable"
**Giovanni Antonio Amadeo , Italian sculptor (d.1522 )
**Bayezid II ,Ottoman Sultan (d.1512 )Deaths
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February 23
**Pope Eugene IV (b.1383 )
**Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b.1390 )
*March 12 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b.1377 )
*April 11 -Henry Cardinal Beaufort , Lord Chancellor of England (b.1377 )
*August 13 -Filippo Maria Visconti , Duke of Milan (b.1392 )
*December -Vlad II Dracul , Prince of Wallachia
*"date unknown" -John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (b.1395 )
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